Saturday, February 1, 2014

The
Material Science program at Soil Secrets has developed a protocol of materials
that work, help hold water in the soil, provide nourishment for the soil
microbes and the vegetation, and fortify the soil with the essential
bio-identical humic molecules that are the foundation of a healthy and
productive soil. Below are some photos
of a cotton crop in the desert of West Texas that show the power of humic
molecules managing soil water in the event of drought.

In this
particular case water was cut off in early September, two months before
the cotton crop was mature enough to harvest. Figure 1 below shows a cotton field where the
crop is much shorter, caused by the artificial drought caused by the irrigation
being terminated.

Figure 2 below shows a cotton field that did not
terminate during the same irrigation drought and which had a two month
advantage for soil moisture.

Both images were taken on the same day and
only a few hundred feet apart, with all variables the same except for one
difference. The green
field (Figure 2) was treated with 315 pounds of the active ingredient in our Ag Grade
TerraPro, which are Supramolecular Humic
molecules, formulated by Soil Secrets. The product was not mixed into
the soil and was only surfaced applied. It resulted in the soil holding
onto a greater amount of moisture which allowed the cotton crop the chance to
keep on growing while the other fields where irrigation was cut
off, failed to grow as much. Also, note the background of these two
images, where you can see the same tanks, as the position of where I'm standing
is only a couple of hundred feet apart, taken on the same day. The
conclusion is obvious, that we can improve the soils ability to hold onto water
and contribute more to the mineral nutrient uptake into the crop or the
landscape. This point has been an easy sell to the agriculture/urban
horticulture and landscape design industries, particularly those which identify
with the problem of drought and alkaline soils.